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Issue No. 124: Will this expired yogurt/tin of tuna/[fill in the blank] kill me?

October 30, 2020 Val Neff-Rasmussen / by Val Neff-Rasmussen

Are foods past their expiration dates unsafe to eat? Probably not. The dates printed on foods—whether they are labeled as “sell by,” “best by,” “use by,” or any other variation on the language—have very little to do with safety, or even when the food will “expire.”

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Illustration of Ortiz tuna fishing boats, anchored in Getaria, Spain

Issue No. 123: Why does that tin of tuna cost so much?

October 8, 2020 Mo Frechette / by Mo Frechette

Take two tins of tuna: one from Ortiz, one typical of the supermarket. They came from the same animal living in the same ocean. One costs twice as much as the other. Why?

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